A rare Vauxhall blue and white coffee can

A rare Vauxhall blue and white coffee can, c.1760, well painted with European figures in the manner of delftware, a couple seated beside, bushes, trees and a three-bar gate, with a finely potted grooved loop handle, 6cm.

Provenance: the David and Jan Birley Collection. Formerly the Billie Pain Collection.

Exhibited: Dreweatt Neate Loan Exhibition 1996, no. 90; also the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar Loan Exhibition 1999, no. 42.